The Jim Fortin Podcast

Jim Fortin
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Oct 29, 2026 • 50min

Ep 543: Throwback to Ep198: How Society Programs You To Be Unhappy, Broke, Overweight, Lonely And Sick!

Explore how family, media, school, advertising, and culture shape subconscious beliefs about money, food, success, relationships, and health. The discussion examines how inherited conditioning can contribute to dissatisfaction, financial struggle, overeating, loneliness, and fear around illness, while encouraging a fresh look at the assumptions guiding everyday life.
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Oct 27, 2026 • 38min

Ep 542: You Have Never Met Yourself: Exit The Lie #3

What if your personality is less “you” than a collection of lessons absorbed from family, culture, and society? This conversation explores inherited beliefs about money, scarcity, affection, and ability, plus the inner critic’s borrowed voice. It also examines how accents, labels, and lifelong conditioning shape identity, and invites deeper curiosity about who you are beneath the programming.
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Oct 22, 2026 • 35min

Ep541: Throwback To Ep195: What Kind Of Animal Are You?

Explore animal medicine as a spiritual practice, from lifetime animal totems to meaningful encounters with turkeys, salmon, otters, badgers, skunks, and deer. Discover how heightened animal senses, card rituals, and everyday wildlife sightings can become invitations to reflect, find direction, and connect more deeply with the natural world.
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Oct 20, 2026 • 30min

Ep 540: The Illusion Of Choice: Exit The Lie #2

Are your choices truly yours? This thought-provoking conversation explores subconscious conditioning, inherited beliefs, neuroscience, and the hidden scripts shaping decisions about work, relationships, money, and more. From an imagined liver-and-onions lunch to a memorable children’s Tylenol commercial, it reveals how advertising, fear, comfort, and repetition can create invisible fences around what seems possible.
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Oct 15, 2026 • 22min

Ep539: Throwback To Ep193: Fear Is The Cure For Fear

Fear takes center stage as a barrier to spiritual growth, creativity, and personal expansion. Explore the difference between emotional fear and genuine danger, how comfort zones keep you stuck, and why confronting judgment, doubt, and insecurity can open the path to greater freedom and self-expression.
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Oct 13, 2026 • 27min

Ep 538: Shatter The Illusion: Why Everything You've Learned Hasn't Set You Free: Exit The Lie #1

Why do people keep smoking, dieting, doom scrolling, and repeating patterns they already know are harmful? This conversation explores the limits of endless learning, the ego’s habit of “decorating the cage,” and why context and direct experience matter more than collecting information. It also introduces a bold new direction focused on questioning human identity and inherited programming.
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Oct 8, 2026 • 29min

Ep 537: Throwback to Ep184: Living Outside All The Fear And Chaos In The World

How can you stay grounded when the world feels chaotic? This conversation explores separating real danger from fear, resisting media-fueled panic, and choosing preparation over worry. It also examines how to avoid getting pulled into family, workplace, and social conflicts by asking a powerful question: What truly pertains to me?
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Oct 6, 2026 • 37min

Ep 536: The Alchemy Of Absolute Surrender

Explore the spiritual power of absolute surrender and the cultural conditioning that keeps people battling life. The conversation examines why jobs, clients, and circumstances are channels rather than sources, how resistance feeds problems, and what happens when fear and attention are withdrawn. It also delves into consciousness, ego, healing, and the possibility of living with greater flow and peace.
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Oct 1, 2026 • 39min

Ep 535: Throwback to Ep120: What Pertains To You In Life?

Feeling drained by family tension, politics, economic worries, or other people’s conflicts? This conversation explores emotional entanglement, the hidden cost of absorbing outside drama, and the risks of stepping into volatile situations. It also examines supporting loved ones without taking responsibility for their choices, helping meaningful causes without losing yourself, and protecting your mental energy.
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Sep 29, 2026 • 34min

Ep 534: The $11 Billion Self-Help Lie That Keeps You Trapped

Is the self-help industry really designed to set you free? This provocative conversation examines the business of constant self-repair, the addiction to feeling progress, and how chasing a better identity may reinforce the belief that you’re broken. Drawing on Plato’s cave, ego, trauma, and consciousness, it explores what it means to stop fixing the story and question who you really are.

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